Through the years, great
comic artists seem to have come to us in waves. After
Siegel and Schuster brought the world Superman in 1938,
the Superhero comics explosion of the Golden Age that
followed gave us the likes of Jack Kirby, Will Eisner,
Lou Fine and Reed Crandall, followed closely by another
pack of future greats ( some only in their teens, their
talents not yet fully realized ), among them Gil Kane,
Joe Kubert and Carmine Infantino.
The late forties saw the decline of Superhero comics,
but with the fifties came strong sales in new genres
featuring grittier, more adult fare, most notably from
Bill Gaines' EC COMICS. Relative newcomers Johnny Craig,
Graham Ingels, Wally Wood and Harvey Kurtzman pushed
the comics envelope working on titles like CRIME SUSPENSTORIES,
TALES FROM THE CRYPT, TWO FISTED TALES and WEIRD SCIENCE.

The great comics implosion that followed in the late
1950s as a result of witch hunts by supposedly civic
minded politicians and private groups, left the field
in a kind of doldrums for a few years, a notable bright
spot being the growing mastery of unique comics
..........................talent Steve Ditko.
Then in the early sixties, as if each had................................
been struck by a bolt from the blue, talented
artists who had ...............................already
been working in the field for decades began
producing the finest work of their careers. PAGE
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